Founded in 1989, WITI is the leading trade association for professional tech-savvy women worldwide and is committed to providing every tool, resource, and connection you need to thrive and succeed in your business, profession, and career.

The most critical attribute for realizing our dreams is integrity. In a conversation about dreams, integrity is essential and can be summarized this way: Say what you mean and mean what you say. Honor your word and agreements and you will be living with integrity, where dreams really do come true.

Simple, yes, but not always easy. Vastly overscheduled, often the person it's most difficult to keep our commitments with, is yourself. As you practice upholding your values, you are given opportunities to show up or to sell out. When you are challenged, do you lose sight of what matters to you? Do you have an internal pulse, a set of conscious principles that you live your life by?
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Nearly Sixty Years Later the World's First Programmers Are Still Doing Gender Battle
by Robin Raskin

The events of recent weeks have puts the issue of women in the workplace top of mind once again. First Harvard's President Lawrence Summers made some unfortunate and inappropriate remarks attributing the small number of women in the sciences to innate biological difference between the sexes. At almost the same moment, Carly Fiorina was ousted at Hewlett-Packard. A misfit between her marketing background and HP's engineering culture was the partial culprit. And now, we've seen the transformative experience of a woman who's paid her dues, as Martha Stewart morphs from piranha to muse. The good news? As these events transpire women's place and unique challenges in the workplace are once again being debated and discussed. The bad news? Like all diversity conversations, as long you're discussing it, it's still an issue.

Medical research continues to point to countless differences between how women and men respond to our environments, medications, and diseases. Over several issues, we'll explore different aspects; Part 1 is about how women are more vulnerable to stress.

Have you ever heard of someone dying of a broken heart? It's more real than we ever imagined, and the effect on women is far greater.

WITI Talk TeleClasses: Transforming your Future!
Are you ready to transform your life and/or your career, but need help figuring out "what next?" Do you know that there must be "more to life," but you aren't sure how to go about finding it? Do you want to explore what your life purpose is so you can create a "Mission Statement" for your life? Have you created a Mission Statement for your life, but don't know where to go from here? If you answered YES to any of these questions, please join us for a WITITalk Teleclass. Participants in these teleclasses have made major changes in their lives, after just the first class!

Vanessa Summers publishes Buying Solo: The Single Woman's Guide to Buying a First Home

Buying Solo: The Single Woman's Guide to Buying a First Home was published by Penguin Group (USA) and released earlier this month. In it, financial guru Vanessa Summers teaches women to take charge of their own financial lives - not by finding Prince Charming, but by buying their own home, even with less-than-perfect credit or no extra cash for a down payment. Buying Solo provides guidance for every step along the way - from selecting a property to closing. Summers also explains:

Why a home is the best investment a single woman can make

How the credit-challenged can buy

How much monthly mortgage, as a percentage of salary, is affordable

How to find a great real estate agent and the best deals

The art of the "Trump-like" negotiation and closing the deal

Vanessa Summers is a former stockbroker, a Registered Investment Advisor, a money coach, and the author of Get in the Game! The Girl's Guide to Money & Investing. CNBC calls her the "Financial Guru" of the MTV generation and Glamour magazine named her their very own "Money Model." She is also the founder of the nonprofit Sutra Foundation, dedicated to providing financial education to young women. Find her online at www.vanessasummers.com.

WITI Marketplace
What an immediate impact we could make if each of us decided to spend our business and consumer dollars on women-owned businesses - to find a coach, consultant, software vendor, dentist, conference-call vendor, phone service, computer and so on from a woman! This is what the WITI Marketplace is all about. There are over 100 businesses in the Marketplace so you don't have to search far to find the products and services you need! Search the Marketplace today!

Reachon.com provides online contact marketing solutions to enable advanced Email contact with existing and potential customers. Reachon enables companies, small to large, to: send out Emails, while providing advanced reports to assist companies in reviewing how well their online campaigns are doing; Unsubcribe/duplicate filtering; Lead management areas, and more. Our services are available for as little as $10, making us the most reasonable contact management software on the Net. WITI Members can test drive the service for free by logging on to reachon.com. With no downloads, the application is easy-to-use. WITI members receive 10% off on selected Email Campaign packages.

Women For Hire Career Expos Across the U.S.
Network face-to-face with recruiters from top employers at the Women For Hire career expos. Meet with companies such as Aon Corporation, Cbeyond Communications, General Dynamics, Southwest Airlines, Swales Aerospace, Tech Data Corporation, United Space Alliance, Verizon and MANY MORE! Free admission. Resumes and business attire required.

Dallas, Tuesday, March 22nd (Adam's Mark 10am-3pm)

Houston, Thursday, March 24th (Westin Galleria 10am-2pm)

D.C., Wednesday, March 30th (Hilton Crystal City 10am-2pm)

San Diego, Tuesday, April 5th (Westin Horton Plaza 10am-2pm)

Los Angeles, Thursday, April 7th (Hilton Universal 10am-2pm)

Tampa, Tuesday, April 12th (Wyndham Harbour Island 10am-2pm)

Atlanta, Thursday, April 14th (Cobb Galleria 10am-3pm)

Boston, Tuesday, April 19th (Hyatt Regency 10am-2pm)

Register today for a special early morning seminar prior to each event! Women For Hire CEO Tory Johnson will lead a networking session from 8:30 a.m. to 10 a.m. where she'll share inspiring and practical jobsearch advice. All attendees will receive a copy of our book, Women For Hire's Get-Ahead Guide to Career Success, and priority admittance to the career expo! Visit www.womenforhire.com to register.

WITI partners with Kraft on Nabisco Open - Palm Springs, March 23-25th
In our effort to create highly desirable, diverse events╩designed to╩provide our members exceptional networking opportunities╩with worldclass executives, WITI is pleased to partner with Kraft on the Nabisco Open. The WITI/ Kraft LPGA Tournament is one of the premier women's sporting events that attracts╩executives from around the country. WITI has a few complementary VIP passes still available for our members. Please contact Susan Bishop to reserve your space today. More information is available at www.kncgolf.com.

Attention Corporations: You're invited to be Raytheon's guest for lunch!
Please accept Raytheon's invitation to be their guest at a luncheon to learn how they have successfully turned a partnership with WITI into real bottom-line benefits. The National WITI Conference is May 5 & 6 in Los Angeles and this is a tremendous opportunity to learn how your company can benefit by showcasing your products, services and business opportunities to professional, tech savvy women.

Raytheon has successfully built its brand and ability to attract outstanding women as employees and business partners and increase its retention rate among senior level women through a strategic, cohesive partnership with WITI. Please join us at the LAX Hilton on March 30th from 10:30 to 1:30 (approximately). RSVP by March 25th to WITIPartners@corp.witi.com or (800)334-9484.

Streaming Media East 2005is THE event for leading minds in streaming and digital media solutions! Coming off of a successful Streaming Media West show in October 2004, Streaming Media East 2005 is shaping up to be even bigger than last year. The conference will feature a busy exhibition hall, keynotes from CitiGroup and U.S. State Department executives, and high-level networking opportunities. Streaming Media East is a must-attend event for anyone involved in IT, streaming, or digital media solutions. WITI members: see the Discounts page in the Members' Area for information on how to save $200 on registration.

Lehman Brothers, an innovator in global finance, serves the financial needs of corporations, governments and municipalities, institutional clients, and high-net-worth individuals worldwide. Founded in 1850, Lehman Brothers maintains leadership positions in equity and fixed income sales, trading and research, investment banking, private equity, and private client services. The Firm is headquartered in New York, London, and Tokyo and operates in a network of offices around the world.

VP, IS Operational Services -- Halbrecht Lieberman Associates
Halbrecht Lieberman Associates is one of the premier healthcare insurance providers in the southeast United States. This $3.5B Company is a leader in delivering innovative health care products, services and information to 3.2 million members. The Vice President, IS Operational Services will report to the Corporate CIO. The position is responsible for the planning and high-quality, cost-effective operation of the Company's technology and infrastructure operations including two data centers. This position manages a staff of approximately 75 and an annual operating budget of about $55M.

WITI@ keeps you up to date on where you will find WITI partners, WITI discounts, WITI women attending industry events. Visit the Members area of the WITI website for priority discount codes for these events. If you want a discount to an event you will be attending and/or want to meet other WITI women at that event, just let us know so we can get it for you!